zimreader: drop

pkgs/tools/text/zimreader/default.nix

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, automake, autoconf, libtool
-, zimlib, cxxtools, tntnet
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "zimreader-0.92";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "wikimedia";
-    repo = "openzim";
-    rev = "r1.3"; # there multiple tools with different version in the repo
-    sha256 = "0x529137rxy6ld64xqa6xmn93121ripxvkf3sc7hv3wg6km182sw";
-  };
-
-  patchFlags = [ "-p2" ];
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "zimreader_tntnet221.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/wikimedia/openzim/compare/r1.3...juliendehos:3ee5f11eaa811284d340451e6f466529c00f6ef2.patch";
-      sha256 = "0rc5n20svyyndqh7hsynjyblfraphgi0f6khw6f5jq89w9i1j1hd";
-    })
-  ];
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-  buildInputs = [ automake autoconf libtool zimlib cxxtools tntnet ];
-  setSourceRoot = ''
-    sourceRoot=$(echo */zimreader)
-  '';
-  preConfigure = "./autogen.sh";
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "A tool to serve ZIM files using HTTP";
-    homepage = "http://git.wikimedia.org/log/openzim";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ robbinch juliendehos ];
-    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
-  };
-}

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

@@ -822,6 +822,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   ytop = throw "ytop has been abandoned by upstream. Consider switching to bottom instead";
   yubikey-neo-manager = throw "yubikey-neo-manager has been removed because it was broken. Use yubikey-manager-qt instead."; # added 2021-03-08
   yuzu = yuzu-mainline; # added 2021-01-25
+  zimreader = throw "zimreader has been removed from nixpkgs as it has been replaced by kiwix-serve and stopped working with modern zimlib versions."; # added 2021-03-28
   zdfmediathk = mediathekview; # added 2019-01-19
   gnome_user_docs = gnome-user-docs; # added 2019-11-20
   # spidermonkey is not ABI upwards-ompatible, so only allow this for nix-shell

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -9542,8 +9542,6 @@ in
   zinnia = callPackage ../tools/inputmethods/zinnia { };
   tegaki-zinnia-japanese = callPackage ../tools/inputmethods/tegaki-zinnia-japanese { };
 
-  zimreader = callPackage ../tools/text/zimreader { };
-
   zimwriterfs = callPackage ../tools/text/zimwriterfs { };
 
   par = callPackage ../tools/text/par { };